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Mrs. Kastigar from West Terre Haute, IN is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Financial Literacy Through Dramatic Play

Help me give my students a cash register with coins and dollars, a play phone, and play food to practice real world financial literacy.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Kastigar's classroom raised $355

This project is fully funded

My Students

The students at my school are from a rural farm community in Indiana. We have a small school at the edge of a large corporation. Our students come from all socioeconomic backgrounds. We are lucky to have great families that work hard and are involved in our school events, but we don't get a lot of extra funding from the state because our school does not qualify as a Title I school. Title I schools have a higher level of students that qualify for free and reduced-price lunches than we currently have.

My sweet kiddos are hard workers, but they have lots of extra energy and thrive during hands-on activities.

We try to keep moving around our classroom several times throughout the day to help with this. I also have tried to incorporate a flexible seating environment to keep their little bodies wiggling, while engaged in learning, while at our seats. We have had a lot of success when we use hands-on manipulatives and activities.

I love to provide learning opportunities that will get my students moving, thinking, and stimulating their learning by creating.

My Project

I teach kindergarten students and we need to use real-world type scenarios to build their foundation of financial literacy using items like a kid-friendly cash register with coins and dollars to purchase items like things from the grocery store using play food or services such as a doctor visit or medicine using this new doctor kit. They will also recognize numbers when call numbers using the new play phone. I will give them a series of numbers to pretend to call certain people or places.

During our Learning Center Happy Home, my young students will build a foundation of how we use the money to purchase items at our grocery store and pay for services at our doctor's office using these real-life situations.

My hope is that students will start to understand that money is needed to purchase things.

Mrs. Kastigar Fayette Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

West Terre Haute, IN View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

20 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
RR900X - Lets Go Shopping Food Baskets - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $115.00 1 $115.00
LM365 - Best-Buy Play Food Assortment • Lakeshore Learning Materials $42.49 1 $42.49
PP723 - Real-Working Cash Register • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
LA427 - Best-Buy Kitchen Playset • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Fisher-Price Medical Kit, Preschool Pretend Doctor Playset • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
AZ985 - Push-Button Play Phone • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.74 1 $12.74

Materials cost

$267.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$301.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.15

Total project goal

$354.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $354.36

5 Donors

-$174.10

Donations toward project cost

-$153.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.86

match offer

-$174.08

Match offer toward project cost

-$147.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.11

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.18

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 $0.00

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